The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-06-28
undcmocrntic. Anti-RcpubIicnn.

be uuucnOCfAtlC anu 0utl-rcpuDllchn
at The same time To any person
who has followed the course of pro-
| hibition in all It's varied phases, state
and national, no answer Is necessary
to such question; but there doubt
less are many citizens and voters in
Texas who have ha1 neither the time
nor the inclination for proper inyes-
tiga,ion of this subject, and to such as
these this article ia addressed.
The best answer to be made is to
publish what the prohibitionsts them.
selves have solemnly declared in their
last national platform. reGding Of
which Will convince the most okcptical
that from u prohibition standpoint,
at least, this particular faith Is Doth
urdemocratic and anti republican.
The following is the third and
fourth planks in their platform OF
| 1885:
| Dnriug the twenty-four
years In which the republican party
has controlled the general govern
ment aud many of the statos, no effort
has been made to change this policy.
Territories have been created, govern.
ments for them established. states
admitted to the union and in no in
stance In either case has this traffic
been forbidden or the people been
permitted to prohibit 1t; that there
are now over 100000 distillcries.
brewers, wholesale aud retail dealers
in their products holding certificates
and claiming the authority of the
| government for tho continuation OF
tho business so destructive to the
moral and material welfare of the
people together with the fact that
| they have turned deaf ear 10 remon-
STRANGE ard petition for the correction
Of this abuse of civil government, is
| conclusive that the republican party is
insensib,c to or impOtcnt for the re-
dress of these wrongs, and should no
| longer be entrusted with the powers
and responsibilities of government;
that though this party in its late
national convention was silent on the
liquor question, not so its candidates,
Messrs. Blaine and Logan Within
the last year Mr. Blaine has recon-
mcnded that the revenue derived from
the liquor traffic be distributed among
the states, and Senator Logan has by
| bill proposed 10 devote those revenues
to the support of the public schools,
thus both virtually recommend the
pcrpctuation of the traffic, and that
tho states and their citizens become
partners in the liquor traffic"
"FOurth--That the democratic party
has in its national delivcranccs OF
party policy, arrayed itself on the side
OF the drink max ers and sellers by de-
claring against the policy of prohibi>
lion under the false name "sumptu-
airy laws that when in power in many
of the states it has refused remedial
Legislation, and that in congress it has
obstructed the creation of commits
sion OF inquiry INTO the ELECTS of this
traffic, proving that it should not be
entrusted with power and place
Thus does it seem that The claim
set up in the Dallas platform of the
state anti prohibition party, that pro-
hibition ID both undemocratic and
anti-rcpubl,can is fully established
and out of the mouth of the highest
authority having right to speak for
the principle, 1t is undemocratlc and
anti-repubican because il il hostile
to the very essence OF republican
forms and principles OF government.
Let us hear no moro cavil ct the
truthful and proper declaration made
at Dallas. some OF our prohibition
democrats q who so loudly claim
that their attitude on this question
does not affect their standing in the
democratic party, may well pause to
reflect. The planks which we have
quoted above from the prohibition
national platform OF 1851 must be
taken ~ elicit and binding. There
is no escaping from thcir controlling
force. Then how can these honest
but deludcd democrats remain longer
in the field for prohibition?
Anti-rcpublicau, of course. because
il Is anti.Americap rs wen. Let us
away with these shams, these trans
pamut subterfugcs 10y which demo-
Gratis and republicans ar. seduced
into voting for the establishment of n
principle which subh;utcs for the
liberties OF the people a despoi-n
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